Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Horsham. An English Romantic poet, Shelley was one of the major lyric poets in the language. Expelled from Oxford for a pamphlet on atheism, he lived much of his short life in Italy with his second wife, Mary Shelley, and in a circle that included Lord Byron and John Keats. His works include the long poem Queen Mab, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, the verse drama Prometheus Unbound and the elegy Adonais, written on the death of Keats. A radical in politics and a vegetarian, he was little appreciated during his life. He drowned in a boating accident off the coast of Italy.
Before and after
- from 20 April 1792 to 25 March 1802French Revolutionary Wars
- 12 May 1792Founding of New York Stock Exchange
- 13 May 1792Birth of Pius IX
- from 18 May 1792 to 27 July 1792Polish–Russian War of 1792
- 4 August 1792Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- from 2 September 1792 to 7 September 1792September Massacres
- from 21 September 1792 to 18 May 1804French First Republic
- 20 November 1792Birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- from 21 December 1792 to 25 May 1793French expedition to Sardinia
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- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
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